Creativity types

Concept extraction

e.g. comparing an atom to the solar system

Connecting disparate semantic ideas through language both helps language disabled and is a basis for humor

Concept exploration

Concept induction

Change style to enable “impossible”

Specific problem -> general problem -> general solution -> specific solution

Exposes that there are many ways to solve a problem

This is the direction System Engineering is heading

Ideally, we want to find all possible forms that could satisfy the function

The trick is eliminating efficiently